Leprosy or Herpes... Your Choice.

G'day Petals,

It has transpired that The Ugly American's minions led by Sydney-sider radio Quislings Toilet-Boy Jones and the Gutter-Mouthed Hadley have had marginal success with their machinations bent on destroying the tenure of prime miniature Truffles.

Unfortunately The Ugly American being now geriatric and his far right supporters in the Ruling Rabble (Rabid-the-Hun, Cap'n Catlic, Andrews, Tarantella Fascisti-Wells and the Mindless Torquemada, Sukkar ) being at any stage less than able, had their preferred candidate, Potato-Head Dutton outflanked by Truffles in, for once in his political career, some deft footwork and Scummo Morrison was elevated to be the right's next sacrifice along with his altar-boy Fiction's Frydenberg. Instead, the Potato-Headed patsy and his creepy little running mate, the Dickensian Ozone-Hole Hunt were left out in the cold.

Scummo's Running mate, Asbestos Bishop must have been out jewellery shopping when the vote was held as she only garnered 11 votes other than her own and more embarrassingly, none from her Far West rabble "colleagues".

Truffles' ineptness was on show earlier in this shambolic week when he bizarrely rose to second the Willie Shortstuff no-confidence motion in his tenuous rabble as Plibersek was arriving at the despatch box... to wit, she quipped "You may second it if you wish".

Chief wrecker, Rabid-the-Hun emerged from the party room meeting saying “....we have lost a prime minister, but there is still a government to save”.... meaning that getting to the right of Genghis Khan he thinks would be a tolerably good position and that he hasn't yet finished destroying any semblance of "centre" in the now fatally fractured Ruling Rabble.

So our new prime miniature is the Happy-Clapper and dog-botherering hypocrite,  Scummo Morrison. The bloke fired from Heading Tourism Australia for bullying and abusing staff, the same bloke unable to win preselection to the seat of Cook (lost 80 - 8) and then mounted a vicious and untruthful campaign against the winner to gain it, the same bloke who has been in charge of our concentration camps for refugees and had people die under his "care" and as treasurer, tripled the country's debt, flat-lined wages, increased under-employment, presided over growing inequality and says that the current Royal Commission into banks "...will be a waste of time ...nothing to see there..." and a climate denying, coal wielding aficionado bloke who thinks that by giving $60 billion in tax cuts to those who pay no tax, particularly banks will solve all our problems.

So this Possums is "the new  generation" of Ruling Rabble "leadership":  a generation likely to accede to the far right, be in the thrall of the putrid IPA and tell that "they're there for us..."

A right-wing coup by any other name, eh....Leprosy or Herpes... Your Choice.?

Hoo-roo Petals, fight on

Shane.

The Other Side of The Coin....

G'day Possums,

I decided that this week to illustrate the anecdotes emanating from this floundering excuse for a federal government with what I think are apposite Still Life images; or Nature Morte, as befitting a moribund ruling rabble. 

The other side of the coin, to lift the skirts to be exposed. It's not looking very good for for the ruling rabble.

Well, is the merde hitting the proverbial or what? And as various ruling rabble non-entities run hither and thither to avoid the stinking spattering fallout from the Royal Commission into the banks and financial services they keep tripping themselves up in the most ludicrous ways.

One side of the coin...

There was Kelly, Shadduppa-Yo-Face O' Dwyer sort of recanting on her silliness with Barrie Cassidy and admitting, sort of, that they well, might have got the political timing of the RC possibly wrong. Echoing her leader, Truffles Turnbull's lines she was then eviscerated by actor Peter Capaldi reprising his foul-mouthed bullying political advisor character from "The Thick of It"  on "The Project" calling her all sorts of deliciously nasty things and that, "...she was all over the place, like shit in a paper bag." It's interesting to note that even the conservative media are now finding it impossible not to treat this flailing rabble with the contempt it deserves.

...the other.

Following a complaint from the last failed prime miniature, Rabid-the-Hun at being called by ABC's rhyming political rapper Andrew Probyn, "...the most destructive politician of the generation." Rabid said,  "... he wasn't looking for an apology ...but should get one," Michele, The-Gutless Guthrie, MD of the ABC, promptly slapped Probyn's wrist for telling the truth and issued an apology and correction to Rabid, further genuflecting to the right-wing of the ruling rabble and further diminishing the standing of one of the last credible news sources in Australia.

Many others also amended Probyn's unusual eruption of truth, correcting his statement about Rabid to read: " The most destructive politician in Australia's history." Which is pretty accurate.

ABC

Macron of France has been here and told Truffles to find some balls re: climate change and to do more to address Global Warming also saying that Truffle's wife Lucy was "delicious."  I think Macron must be short-sighted and had confused Lucy with Julia Zemiro... who is.

 And deliciously talented to boot.

IPA policy statement

Macron must have been bemused with the news that The Pussy Grabber, Trump is sending climate-denier environment chief  Scott Pruitt to have a two hour "round-table" with "excellent people" from the IPA who, according to the IPA's Roskam, would teach the American's a thing or two.

Le Jongleur Roskam's fantastical parallel universe had him touting the panel's Jennifer Marohasy, as “Australia’s authority on temperature and climate variability”(....a person who has accused the Bureau of Meterology of corrupting the temperature record.... I kid you not, Petals), but revelling in his self-appointed king-making and anointing, Le Jongleur suggested too that Maurice, "Global-Warming-is-a-Delusion" Newman would be a kindred spirit!

It has not been announced whether all attending will be wearing costumes from the Bar scene in Star Wars.

IPA thoughts on Civil Society

Truffles lost one of his Financial Sector Advisory Council members when disgraced departing AMP chief exec Craig Mellor stepped away because he has been less than honest with the federal regulator about charging customers fees for no service.

But we've not done anything wrong, bleat the AMP board as the council assisting calls for criminal charges to be laid....and the public sees clearly that not only are the banks and financial advisers in it for themselves and not their customers but that the gene pool for Board appointees is as shallow as the talent pool for the ruling rabble.

J. Banks foot

That that pool is exceedingly shallow was evidenced by four brain farts erupting late  this week. One by (the currently unfortunately named) Julia Banks who in rejecting calls for the dole to be increased, opined that although her parliamentary salary is around $200,000.00 and owning five properties, she could live on $40.00  per day. 

Now, there's stupid, there's really stupid and there's also the mind-numbing social irrelevance and blinkered greed, common to ruling rabble types. I dare say her Victorian electoral seat has already suffered the 2% margin reversal it needs to return Labor at the next federal election if the Twitter/ Farcebook storm is anything to go by.

clear thinking in Queensland

Petals, I really have never known what's in the water in the Deep North but apart from lately having multiple councillors of the conservative ilk up on criminal and fraud charges, up popped the Lame-Brained Andy Laming to pontificate on education. Saying that teachers should work the same hours as everyone else, should only have four weeks holiday a year, not be doing any prep or marking at home Andy Lame-Brain also intimated that the new Gonski proposals were a sell out to the teacher unions. These idiocies were generally supported by ex ruling rabble senator Suzie Boyce who on "The Drum" said dismissively that people only became teachers as it was a simple job with good holidays...or some such merde.

It should be noted that neither of these has taught in a classroom and one surmises that their contempt for the profession at least in one case, would come from a private education and ability to rort entitlements!

Rather than look to country's like Finland as exemplars these ruling rabble types prefer the divisiveness of a fractured system, as it suits their political agenda.

A construct ( Sanchez Cotain)

Fourth and last fart off the rank was Tony Shepherd, railing against the Business Council of Australia being effectively questioned in Senate Committee; accusing questioners of a "witch-hunt" and that they were driven by political self interest in wanting to know what the BCA members would do with 65 billions of taxpayer money they may be given.

Now, self-interest... I think Tones knows a bit about that.... social responsibility... not as much.

A movable Feast.

The BCA btw, are wanting to put together a "donation" fund of $25,000,000.00 to "educate" the  taxpayer whom they say will be well served by giving them $65,000,000,000.00 and which, they assure us, will trickle down .... eventually... perhaps...sometime.  It's a pity that many of those donating cannot afford to pay tax in the first place and BCA's  Westacott expresses surprise that anyone could possibly question the motives and intentions in such a fulsome propaganda fest.

Hoo-roo Possums,

Shane

Darkness we are heading toward.

All at Sea.

Shane w/ Mt Gambier stone

G'day Possums,

goodness, it's been a silent month….but as the pic testify's, work was afoot.

What started as "…let's replace the carpet," progressed to.... "Well, I could re-align that wall upstairs…take that door around the corner… and what if…..?

And, so it went:  new doors,  ditch architraves and re-introduce stone., necessitating a trip to Mt Gambier to purchase more….. and although Mt Gambier might not be the centre of the universe, their Sorrento Café could well be… excellent food, affable staff and good service .. it's more than a café.  Breakfast to dinner.

Lower a ceiling, and do an almost full re-paint….re-line new walls with limed ply and re-discover what the place was about when originally designed. 

Exciting… and debilitating in a dirty, dusty space.

There was a time when Shane Wombat got a little depressed throwing away so much photographic and drawing history (mostly repeated stuff)  and storing more, till he felt he had no existence or space to live in that he knew at all.

But eventually it was, bar some minor little bits, done!

 All of which meant that a break was necessary and with a significant anniversary due..  it was off to Apollo Bay for a couple of days to re-calibrate, celebrate, relax and where the images and the current political malaise seemed to coincide.

Selfie Absorption.

Acting as a simpering apologist for a failed would-be governing body, today Fiction's Frydenberg's whole speech at the National Press Club was, without him being aware of it, a damning critique of the so-called "free market" and an expose' of the ludicrousness of a fragmented privatised energy market over which any government has little control: particularly this incompetent and divided cabal of a ruling rabble.

In a pathetic attempt to blame all and sundry for the disintegrating power system other than their own ideological ineptitude in recognizing the future, he recalled the tired old shibboleths of …blame labor …. blame their carbon tax… even though it would still have traction economically.

Poor Fictions… it's hard to understand that he really, really  believes the bullshit he coughs up!

 

Detritus.

The Red Terror of the Deep North, Appalling Hanson, managed to depress her low standing even further by targeting the winning Indian air-pistol competitors at the Commonwealth Games and calling them  Muslims…. they were all Hindi… and then jibing along the lines of:  "No wonder they won, shooting is a lot of what they do…..", to cement her stupidity. 
The limited intelligence from Ipswich then decided that there had been too much indigenous activity in the opening ceremony, which was to her feeble understanding, "outrageous" and besides,  "I'm indigenous, too!" she flatulated.

 

Uneasy Lies the Head...

Great uncle Otto's boy, Vichy Abetz has joined a with few others of similarly limited imagination, Cap'n Catlic Andrews, Rabid-the-Hun, Barnyard Joyce and Craig, Crackers Kelly to form the frivolously called Monash Forum.

Geese and Scavengers

 Named after General Sir John Monash of WW1 fame and later a significant consolidator of disparate private electricity companies to create the successful and profitably large employer, the  State Electricity Commission of Victoria….........until ex-premier and fellow ruling rabble Neanderthal Bovver-Boy, Foot-in-Mouth Kennett privatised it and sold it to the Malaysian Government and buggered supply and distribution costs to all Victorians.

 

...nuff said!

Vichy obviously wasn't told either, that Monash was a Jew;  one of those his great Uncle Otto sent from France in 1944 to the Nazi gas-ovens; and Barnyard also doesn't ken that Monash created wealth for the state: not, as he has done with the Murray/Darling and the Pesticides Authority of Dept of Agriculture, destroyed things.

Rabid-the-Hun demonstrated his commitment to this pathetic cabal by organizing a bike ride circling back to the future, past a coal fired power station demonstrating C19th technology.

As for Cap'n Catlic and Crackers? Their unreported silence was appreciated by all.

 

Mrs Wombat and a pastiche of J. Bishop.

Barnyard, whilst waiting for his mistress' and his assumed progeny to be born attempted to appear relevant by firing blanks at the Prime Miniature for equalling  Rabid-the-Hun's record of losing 30 consecutive polls (… the ruling rabble's 60th, btw) and hypocritically calling on Truffles to be "honourable" and stand down if things hadn't improved by xmas.

It was not announced where he had found that word or whether he actually understood its meaning before it curdled in his mouth.

 

ruling rabble policy setting.

Truffles, sadly found some solace in his miserable poll results in that most of his ruling rabble fellow travellers didn't want another leadership spill and would seem to want to see him "in situ" till his next electoral evisceration or Madame Guillotine beckons… whichever comes first.

I'm hoping for the latter and have begun buying yarn.

Cheers Petals,

Shane.

and then there was Rachel B....and her indefatigable dog..... 

and the Otways... lovely place...

Rape and Pillage

G'day Possums,

Mrs Wombat and I went on a little amble t'other day.  

After staying with friends near Benalla we meandered up to Chiltern and on to Goulburn, perusing The Big Merino "Rambo", a magnificently haughty specimen and then diverted to the Illawarra Highway, travelling through a very colonial Englishness of Exeter with its delightfully understated 1895 Art Nouveau St Aidens Anglican church, to Sutton Forest and then on to Kiama.

The Big Merino "Rambo"

We  returned via the M1, taking in the beautiful Pacific coast with its multiple secluded inlets and dramatic landscapes south of Narooma, the beautiful country of Tilba Tilba conversing there with some of the delightful and self proclaimed notorious, "Tilba Tappers" to an excellent lunch at the Tathra  wharf.

Back into Victoria, Cape Conran and the Snowy River estuary at Orbost were highlights and after a stay in Bairnsdale, returned to the home burrow.

 Snowy River estuary at Orbost

So why the title, Rape and Pillage following such a visually stunning trip?

Well, the pillage could in some fashion be explained by the road-kill carnage seen in this 1400 km trip: 22 Wombat, 2 Echidna and dozens of Wallaby and Kangaroo carcasses littering the road side, particularly in the NSW region. The rape? There was a small cove/beach near Kiama that had once been full of shell middens until the arrival of the colonists who denuded the area of its flora, built a wharf to transport stone quarried further inland to Sydney and generally laid waste to an Indigenous culture of a beautifully balanced environment, food sources and shelter material. This experience was sadly, seen repeated a number of times in other places.

Turingal Point, near Tathra

Reflecting on this, it seems that our "national culture" was "set" back in the 1790's.

We have a lamentable world record for the extinction of mammals, we are still (in Deep North, Queensland) clear felling/stripping bush for cattle farms, over-logging marginal forest with endangered species (in The Tardis State of Victoria) and polluting bays and rivers nation-wide with run-off from roads, farm fertilizers, and coal mines and sewage.

Tathra Wharf

Water theft by large irrigation companies is aided and abetted by our apology of a deputy prime minister / water minister the New Zealander, Barnyard Joyce and today I listened to the faux environment minister, Fictions Frydenberg, prevaricating on re-newable energy in order to kow-tow to fossil fuel companies and abnegate responsibility for the nation's gas supply and allow "fracking" to destroy more farmland and pollute the water table in the worlds driest continent instead of developing a viable and sustainable energy policy.

Unfortunately I didn't vote for Santos, AGL, Alinta or Ergon et al, to run this country, so I don't know why this present Ruling Rabble thinks that sucking from the taxpayer teat qualifies them to not lead the nation but blithely follow multi-national business' profit plans to the country's environmental, economic detriment and eventual demise.

Kiama

Interestingly, during the trip, similar attitudes popped up in conversation with other travellers or locals... none of them happy with the manner in which this place is being allegedly governed. I would have expected in rural towns more conservative attitudes to be expressed but the opposite was the case. It was the same with shop-keepers as it was with the person on the street. Once, during a picnic lunch at Holbrook in a conversation with a Adelaide couple, a person nearby joined in to agree politically, with what we were saying, so it seems that our famed reticence not to publicly and openly discuss politics is being eroded by the sheer continuing incompetence of the Ruling Rabble and its ad hoc administration. Even a middle class couple from Victoria's Blue Ribbon bay-side opined that we're no longer in a good place and were thoughtfully amused at my fantasy suggestion of the woman converting the tip of her walking pole into an elimination device of the corrupt Reboxetine Robb who has "Quislinged" the nation to the Chinese.

Murulan

Great Uncle Otto's boy, Eric, Vichy Abetz has again provided ample evidence not only of the Ruling Rabble's abject hypocrisy but also their legislative confusion: a front-runner of the push to have section 18C wiped from the statute books as he thought it limited free speech, Vichy has called for the banning of some Septic-Tank Rapper singing an "equal love" rap song at the NRL Grand Final entertainment. It seems that personal religious kant and the divisiveness of deeply ingrained homophobia trumps policy.... and community!

No wonder people will publicly query the proficiency, stability and veracity of this rabble or for that matter given the constant ranting of failed Ruling Rabble prime miniature, Rabid-the-Hun, its sanity, too.
Hoo-roo, Petals,

Shane.

St Aidens, Exeter, NSW

How low can they go?

G'day Possums,

 today some pics from the RAAF Museum at Point Cook where we, Mrs Wombat, daughters and son-in-law repaired to after a scheduled gift flight in a Tiger Moth was cancelled due to inclement weather.

Golly, the Ruling Rabble are not only just office boys to the IPA. Now, with Tardis State opposition leader Matty What's-a-Green-wedge Guy, they are also foot soldiers for the Mafia mob.

Tiger Moth Point Cook

Having supped the cray and sipped the Grange with what Vicpol term "a senior mafia figure" who's been banned from racecourses and the casino, Matty has spent three days refining his account of not really knowing or wanting to take election funds in discreet amounts to dodge electoral law from the Dodgy Bros and after sacking his too locquacious staffer organizing the deal has referred himself to IBAC for absolution. Given that this body, due to when the ruling rabble were messing the state up, had over-watered the plant turning it into a toothless tiger, the ploy is just a cynical bit of window dressing attempting to avoid the obvious. 

Matty, like your party, you're bent: and if you think you can continue to run a Laura Norder election you will look more like a character from Komedy Kapers than a seriously valid candidate for premier.

Avro 504, Point Cook

Interestingly, the mobster with the lobster is the same Maddaferi who was allowed into the country by the then immigration minister Mandy, Il Patrone Vanstone back in 2005 on "humanitarian" grounds. Noted, not only for his alleged involvement in murders, drug running and stand-over tactics he apparently was also a generous donor to a ruling rabble slush fund called "The Millenium Foundation."

Now, if you're taking money from the Dodgy Bros what are you giving in return?

How low can the ruling rabble go?

Supermarine Walrus

Pretty low actually ..... federally, they have instigated a non binding, voluntary postal survey that is going to cost $122,000,000.00 ( where's a budget emergency when you need it?) so that those not the least bit interested in marriage equality will have a say in who can and can't, rather than the parliament doing what it's paid to do and voting on it, because the ruling rabble are hopelessly enmeshed in internecine factional warfare.

As the rules pertaining to elections will not apply, open slather has been accorded to the haters, trolls, homophobes and other narrow minded fundamentalists to spew forth without fear of litigation.

First cab off the rank rank was the alleged xtian, Lyle, Sleaze-Mind Shelton who was fairly drooling over the opportunity to vent his putrid medieval religiosity on a national stage. He was backed up by failed priest, and failed Prime Minister Tony, Rabid-the-Hun Abbott who was overjoyed at being able to conflate freedom of expression, political correctness, safe schools, and marriage equality into his negative and venomous three word slogans of bilious hate. He was following by Bronny Kero/Chopper Bishop (she who should be but is not, dead yet) alerting us to the real dangers being faced by cats, dogs, horses, sheep and possibly Kangaroos, and hades forbid, Wombats if the vote is "Yes" .

This shonky postal vote is just another weapon in the arsenal of dissension fostered by the right-wing to obscure their real agenda: capitalist domination.

 

FB2 

Adding to this little distraction are a swag of other improbity:  the rampant corruption surrounding the National's leader Barnyard Joyce's Murray-Darling water theft, the stinking mess of dishonest EPA officials and their response to re-cycling practices, ministers being paid monies by firms they are going to work for when they leave parliament, before they leave parliament, corruption from the top in our nascent SS, the Border Farce, the failure of some parliamentarians to rescind dual citizenship and then ignoring convention and not stepping down, more blood on ruling rabble hands from the concentration camp on Manus Island, banks aiding and abetting the illegal transactions of criminals and terrorist groups and the ongoing rorting of parliamentary entitlements... all of which strongly indicates that this nation is falling apart under this ruling rabble and Truffles then has the temerity to tell us he's a strong leader!

Perhaps he was referring to his odour?

Hoo-roo Petals

Shane

...and a horse on a skate board with a pupil makes as much sense, too.

The mirror's cracked and things are askew...

 

It's Time.

G'day Petals,

most of today's pics are from areas around the route of the present southern sections of the  "Tour de France," The Tarn and Aveyron, taken some four years ago.

Border Farce Commissioner, Roaming Quisling is on leave, being investigated for possibly being a very naughty boy.

Not for the fact that Border Farce incorrectly sent 2 Australian citizens to Christmas Island or that they stuffed up the raid on Victoria, or that journalists personal details were leaked or that the "darknet" is selling Medicare details and police ID online... but into his personal behaviour...Dodo Dutton, allegedly Immigration Minister was a Queensland cop too, so... "nuffin-to-see-'ere?"

As one wit noted, "Brothers-in-Harm?"

Shades of Mandy "Il-Patrone" Vanstone's  appalling ministerial history ... malevolent echoes of the wrongful imprisonment of Cornelia Rau and Vivian Solon. Ms Solon, also an Australian citizen, was wrongly deported to the Philippines in 2001 because immigration officials believed she was an illegal immigrant.

She was later compensated to the tune of $4.5 million.

But Mandy "Il Patrone" still gets to regularly proselytise her right wing political banalities on TV, radio and in the press.

 

The Devil, Death and Eve, Moissac.

Without any irony, a Brit  right-wing think-tank, the Policy Exchange, awarded Truffles Turdball their "Disraeli Prize"  for "...maintaining Australia’s non-discriminatory immigration program..."

Hmmm... that's gotta be up there in relevance to the environmental award to Ozone Hole Hunt!

Chairman of the Ruling Rabble's Climate and Energy Committee, Craig, Kok-Up Kelly announced that renewable energy costs will kill old people because they will not be able to afford to heat themselves this winter. "People will die".. he said, and should have added that, "...their deaths will have nothing to do with our cutting  the pensioners energy supplement," which was put in place by Labor to compensate for the carbon tax.

 

Church, Oradour-sur-Glane

In a moment of genuine humour, failed politician and ex prime-miniature, Tony Rabid-the-Hun, Abbott said after his latest fantastical and egotistical outburst to a small band supporters in what looked to be a beer-hall  that: “The last thing I want to do is be difficult.”

Dominatrix, Bloody Idiot Credlin was in furious support of her best client agreeing; and as the Madam of allegedly the best political brothel in Canberra, also provided sorely needed relief to host, Blot-on-the-Landscape, Bolt by describing (accurately for once), the Ruling Rabble as: “little men with soft, soft backbones, no ticker, no heart and no soul”..... and I don't really think she meant their souls!

Irritated by this dissension taking HIS coal powered limelight in denying climate change and that renewables actually work, Fictions Frydenberg plopped in to observe that Rabid's chewing on Truffles is only going to result in Willy Shortstuff coming out the other end first!

Geez... always blaming Labor!

 

Oradour-sur-Glane

On a positive note, Philip Morris in losing its case has been billed the full cost ( $25 -50 Millions) of their appeal against the plain packaging legislation brought in by then health minister in the Gillard Government, Nicola Roxon which, since implementation, has resulted in dramatic falls in smoker uptake particularly amongst the young and teenagers.

St Cecile's, Albi

Another "own goal" costing business "bigly" by Le Jongleur Roskam's IPA who arguing against the public health interest pushed this appeal.  Geez... they're really bright these Coots-With-Queer-Ideas-From-a-Parallel-Universe: with friends like that, who'd need enemies?

Hoo-roo, Possums

Shane

Mother and Young.